The Neddiad: Do you know who Daniel Pinkwater is? Because really. He’s only written about a million books! [...] his books are always crazy and science fictiony and often involve chickens and New Jersey. You will not be sorry.

This book is about a boy who goes out on Thanksgiving to buy a turkey, but instead he goes to a house and a guy gives him a 260-pound chicken that's alive! But he starts befriending it. I liked it because it was a very touching tale. I would recommend it to all ages.
Nick S., grade 7

In case you missed NPR appearance "Chicken Big".

Manga / Anime Another episode worth watching twice is the Detective Conan parody show. Nagi writes a murder mystery script which she forces everyone to act out at a hot spring resort. Unsurprisingly, Nagi is neither a great screenwriter nor a competent mystery writer by any stretch of the imagination. The cuts between scenes happen with increasing absurdity as the episode progresses. It's also not clear from the outset that the script was written by Nagi or why the murder victim keeps waking up and screaming at the other players. I'm not a huge mystery fan, so I didn't get all the jokes, but I enjoy absurdist comedy, so I liked this episode a lot (one of my favorite books is Daniel Pinkwater's Young Adult Novel).